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DVD/Blu-Ray question

guyver01

guyver01

Lifer
Now ... i know this is gonna sound stupid... but i'm looking at getting a Blu Ray player... found a nice one with BD-Live, Netflix, etc...

my question is..

If i buy a Blu-Ray player... will it play my old DVD's as well? i dont care if it upconverts it... i just dont want to not be able to watch my old DVDs.

i ask, because i can't find any info as to whether Blu-Ray players are backward compatible... if it depends on the model, etc..

Punted to AV&HT

-ViRGE
 
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guyver01 said:
i barely got an answer out of OT at 3:00am... you think anyone actually reads "home theater" at 3:00am?
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lol and why is an answer at 3am that crucial?

All BRD players up-scale DVD with varying degree of competency.

Some play netflix and youtube.
 
Just about everyone of them will play older dvds with no issues whatever.
Just a matter of brand and feature preference and price.
 
What's funny is I got my Samsung bluray player because it can do Netflix and Blockbuster streaming.

I seriously believe that Bluray is a failure, and people are mostly going to skip it for streaming movies directly. The new Sammy players are kick ass, $200, have wireless built in, comes with apps, and does a lot more than just play discs. I wouldn't have bought a player otherwise.
 
Fritzo said:
What's funny is I got my Samsung bluray player because it can do Netflix and Blockbuster streaming.

I seriously believe that Bluray is a failure, and people are mostly going to skip it for streaming movies directly. The new Sammy players are kick ass, $200, have wireless built in, comes with apps, and does a lot more than just play discs. I wouldn't have bought a player otherwise.
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BD will likely stay in its own successful niche market. the fact is, real HD streaming simply isn't a reality, and it won't be any time soon. Sure, the majority of consumers probably won't care, b/c they can't be troubled to tell the difference between a quality BD and highly compressed 720p "HD" streamed from Netflix. I think some of Netflix's streamed "HD" is decent, but it isn't even in the same league as what you get with a BD.

when the ave BD is only ~$3 more than a DVD, dumping DVD entirely seems like a no-brainer to me. I like the idea of sub-$200 BD players with tons of VOD options, WiFi, and internal storage. You get all the streaming that just about anyone wants, plus the added functionality of real HD capability for those that actually use their Home theater for what it was meant to do.
 
Slick5150 said:
I hate that argument.

It only has bang for the buck if you're a gamer. If you're not, then it's an overpriced Blu-Ray player.
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definitely true now.

back at inception, though, it was indeed the best bang-for-buck, future proof BD player out there.

It's still very capable, but not what I'd recommend for someone wanting a value BD player.
 
zinfamous said:
definitely true now.

back at inception, though, it was indeed the best bang-for-buck, future proof BD player out there.

It's still very capable, but not what I'd recommend for someone wanting a value BD player.
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You don't think it's worth the $100 to get a BD player that is virtually future-proof?
 
Fritzo said:
What's funny is I got my Samsung bluray player because it can do Netflix and Blockbuster streaming.

I seriously believe that Bluray is a failure, and people are mostly going to skip it for streaming movies directly. The new Sammy players are kick ass, $200, have wireless built in, comes with apps, and does a lot more than just play discs. I wouldn't have bought a player otherwise.
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Streaming is no where near ready to overtake anything. You cannot stream 1080p with 7.1 let alone 5.1 audio with most of the internet connections people have at home unless they like waiting forever for it. Sure if you don't care about video or audio quality then yea it'll be fine but for others, streaming cannot replace blu-rays any time soon.
 
I for one, have no intention of replacing my collections with BluRay discs. Now in the future, they may only have certain titles on BluRay, in which case, I would need a player for them.
But for now, my old Sony is doing fine. If / when it quits, then the new one will have BluRay capability. I will not be burning my own backups, since the burner and the media are still kinda pricey.
 
bruceb said:
I for one, have no intention of replacing my collections with BluRay discs. Now in the future, they may only have certain titles on BluRay, in which case, I would need a player for them.
But for now, my old Sony is doing fine. If / when it quits, then the new one will have BluRay capability. I will not be burning my own backups, since the burner and the media are still kinda pricey.
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even if you are not going to replace your dvd collection with BR, it is still a good idea to have a BRD player with good upscaling capabilities. IT can make your DVD look almost as good as HD.


There is no way in hell I am replacing my 1200+ DVDs 😛

ok, maybe if I hit the lottery, but then I would not need to, I'll just buy a theatre.
 
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smitbret said:
You don't think it's worth the $100 to get a BD player that is virtually future-proof?
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virtually--Sony just doesn't have as much incentive these days to make the PS3 fully capable. If they did, they probably would have included all of the HD audio codecs available to the many players out there that the PS3 still can't process (not that such is completely necessary, but still not a function); and not just through bitstream.

plus, pretty much any BD player seems to come with enough internal memory to allow for serious firmware updates, or at least the capability to do so, no?

again, it was a good argument. not anymore.
 
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